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Letters PatcntNo. 67,556, dated-August 6, 1867.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. JoUETT, of New York, of New York county, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful 'Improvements in Combined Chair and Couch Apparatus; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full and exact description thereof, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings making part of this application.

My invention relates to certain new and useful vimprovements on the combined chair, couch, and stretcher, patented to me on the sixth day of November, 1866.

My present invention has for its objects to render such an apparatus still more desirable and convenient, both for eld service and asl an article of household furniture, by embodying in it a more complete and ready means of putting it together and taking it apart, and a better system and arrangement of the several parts; and to these ends my present invention consists in the several characteristic features of construction hereinafter more particularly described and claimed;

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe more fully the construction and operation of an apparatus embracing myseveral-iniprovements, referring by letters to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of my improved combined chair and couch.

Figure 2 is a similar view of the same in a different adjustment, showing a chair of dierent proportion from that seen at iig. 1', and

Figure 3 is an elevation showing the apparatus adjusted to constitute a couch.

Figures 4, 5, 6, and 7 are detail views, which will be presently referred to.

In the several figures the same parts are designated by the 'same letter of reference.

A and B are the main bars, and bl b and c c2 the cross-bars, which, when put together, constitute the two rectangular frames, which are pivoted together at a: lby means of metallic pivots or-screw'bolts, provided with suitable nuts. The l'ongitudinol bars A B are cut away, where they come together at e, in the manner and for the purposes substantially as described in my Letters Patent referred to. D is the eXible apron, made of any suitable material, such as canvas, for instance, and formed or made up with hems or pockets for the reception of the cross-bars g z'. This apron D has at or near one end two such pockets, (as illustrated at 5 6, see g. 6,) the object of which is that the cross-bar adapted to fit insaid pockets may be placed in one or the other, as occasion requires,'to admit of a greater or less degree of distension of the apron, as will be presently more fully explained. One of the cross-bars or' apron-sticks g is madc of the shape seen at tig. 4, being larger in the middlelportion thanv at either end; the other one, z', is made of the peculiar form seen at iig. 5, and the two cross-bars c and b are flattened on one side, as seen in the sections, in lieu of being perfectly circular in cross-section, as shown in my said Letters Patent. The object and advantage in making'these cross'- barsras shown, are to have a ilat or plane surface presented for the limbs of aperson sitting on the chair, (when formed either by the adjustment seen at tig. 1, or by that seen at g. 2.) In the lattcradjustment, the object and aduantage of the peculiar form of bar z' are clearly seen. It will be seen that by virtue of the depression along thev bar z', it assumes a position such that its upper surface lies about level with the attened surface of har b, so as to present a. comfortable rest for the legs and seat of the person occupying the chair. The bars bl bz c c2 are all made with screws, and provided with nuts ar, as seen at fig. 7, so that they can be coupledto andl disconnected from the bars A B with great facility, and at the same time, when coupled or screwed in, will remain rigidly in adjustment. The said bars may be formed with right and left-hand screws, as shown at iig. 7, so as to screw into the side pieces A B, the nuts f acting as jam nuts. The peculiar arrangements -or diiferent adjustments of the apron and frames together, to form vthe chairs and couch, are clearly illustrated by the drawings, and need not be further described here. In forming the couch seen at iig. 3,- it may be desirous to havetheapron pretty taut or tight; toeectths, the cross-bar t' is putin thepockets 5 of the apron, to shorten it, as seen, or take up the slack. i

The general operation and the uses of the apparatus are about the same as those of the chair and stretcher already* patented to me, and need not be further alluded, to here.

It will be understood that by the construction of the several parts in the manner described, and their adaptation to one another, an apparatus is furnished which is easily and rigidly put together for use, and with-equal facility taken apart, and which may `be packed up in an exceedingly small space or parcel fortransportation, which is a great desideratum in the use of the concern for army purposes.

Haging explained the nature of my improvement upon the apparatus patented to me as aforesaid, what I- clpim/ as new, and desire'to secure by Letters Patent, is l In `combination with the frame and shifting-apron, the 'iattened cross-bars b1 and c, the whole arranged and operating in the manner and for the purposes desoribed.

I also claim the cross-bar z' of the shape described, so that it will lie even with the cross-bar b1, as shown and described, for the purpose described.

I also claim, in combination with the reversible frame and shiftingmpron, the apron-sticks with their middle portions enlarged, all as and for the purposes described.

I also claim the employment, in combination with the. reversible frame and removable sticks, of a shiftingapron made with a series of pockets, substantially as and for the-purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I havehereunto set my hand and seal this day of 1867.

JAS. E. JOUETT. [L s.]

Witnesses:

J. N. MeINTIRn,v R. CHANDLER. 

